2025 Agenda

The aviation industry is racing toward a future of smarter, safer, and more sustainable skies, but the question we’re asking today is: Is innovation truly enabling that future, or is it creating new layers of complexity?
We’ll explore whether innovations, such as remote towers, virtual centres or AI/ML enhanced Advanced Surface Movement Ground Control System (A-SMGCS) are the enablers we think they are, or if they’re overwhelming the very people tasked with keeping our skies safe.
This panel dives into a discussion to strike a balance between People, Processes, and Technology:
• Are cutting-edge technologies empowering air traffic controllers or adding operational complexity? Additionally, is there a human centric approach to achieving seamless skies using these digital enhancements?
• How are airports able to support ANSPs strike a balance between smarter, efficient and economical ATM and prioritizing safety and security
• Are these digital enhancements ensuring resilience or introducing new vulnerabilities?
• Are the regulatory frameworks and guidelines ensuring safety or increasing risks of these new technologies overwhelming the industry/ postponing the inevitable?
Our distinguished panellists collectively bring decades of experience from the key aviation stakeholders such as the airports, CAA/ANSPs, IFATCA and Suppliers. Together, they’ll share insights on how they are contributing to enable the future of skies, and challenge assumptions about what it really takes to make innovation an enabler, not a disruptor.

NB – Confirmed Panellists include: IFATCA Rep, Supplier – SAAB Rep and CAA Malaysia Rep.